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...overall the Grenada operation seemed to produce a new public pride in the military. It infused Veterans Day observances last week, and was evident as Army Rangers and some of the paratroopers returned from the Caribbean. "It's great to feel wanted," Ranger Sergeant Tracy Hickman told one reporter at Georgia's Hunter Army Airfield, contrasting the bitter homecoming from Viet Nam with last week's warm reception. A post-invasion poll taken by the Washington Post and ABC News showed that 63% of Americans approve the way Reagan is handling the presidency, the highest level...
...search went on, many Marines, stunned and angry, swapped memories about those killed. One Navy corpsman had just married a Lebanese woman. He had returned from his honeymoon a day early, on Sunday, just in time for a rendezvous with death. Some recalled the Marine staff sergeant who a few days before the attack was proudly showing a videotape of his newborn son, whom he had never seen and now never will. Few could avoid pointing out that the tour of duty for most of those killed had almost ended, that they were scheduled to leave Beirut...
...Gunnery Sergeant Edward Kimm, 33, was no kid. Rather, he was a decent man who ungrudgingly kept up his child-support payments and arranged to spend a month every year with his two daughters, 7 and 6, who live in Lincoln, Neb., with their mother. Last week his stepdaughter Christina, 9, recalled that during his last visit, Kimm prepared them for the worst. "He said that if two Marines came to the door at our house, then he would be dead...
...hush was of a different, edgier kind when the Marine Corps captain and sergeant stepped up to the suburban Baltimore apartment with news of Lance Corporal Davin Green. His mother had utterly persuaded herself that Davin, 20, was a survivor. "How do you know it's really him," she protested after the men delivered their message, "if he's all blown to pieces?" Days later, her daughter-in-law was refusing to concede she was a widow. "I know he's not dead," said Deborah Green, 19, whom Davin married 48 hours before shipping out for Beirut...
...Right Moves may be gunmetal gray, but the characters and situations are as colorful as your favorite coming-of-age clichés. These teen-agers are good-looking kids with big dreams and a bright line of patter. The coach carries on like a sensitive drill sergeant, psyching his team into a football frenzy by using curses, inspirational locker-room speeches and the odd face-mask violation. Michael Chapman, who graduated to the director's chair with this film after making his name as the cinematographer of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Personal Best, brings a virginal intensity...